RE: [xml-dev] Web Services/SOA (was RE: [xml-dev] XML 2004 weblog items?)

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:57 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Web Services/SOA (was RE: [xml-dev] 
> XML 2004 weblog items?)
> 
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:16:34PM -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
> > The acronym "SOA" is not information-bearing.
> 
> Sad but true.
> 
> >  Which of technologies
> > are actually being deployed as part of this roll-out?
> 
> And more importantly I'd argue, *how* are those technologies used?
> "SOA" encompasses many different architectural styles, 

I believe that SOA is *an* architectural style.

> some 
> more or less suited for particular tasks (e.g. integration) 
> than others.
> Few Web services technologies 

SOA is not a Web Services technology - Web Services are a tactical means
to achieve the strategic goal of SOA (credit to Burton Group for that
characterization).

Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World

> embody much in the way of 
> architectural constraints, though some embody a lack thereof. 
>  For example, WSDL only makes sense once you've rejected all 
> forms of interface constraint.
> 
> Mark.
> -- 
> Mark Baker.   Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.        http://www.markbaker.ca
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